Slumber-wagon



G. A. CDNGDON. SLUMBER WAGON. APPUCATION mu) 05c. 2a. 1919.

GEORGE A. conenon, or soMEnvILLE, MASSACHUSETTS.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. CONGDON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Somerville, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in SlumberlrVagons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to rovide a portable structure in which an in ant may sleep, embodying a crib and a chamber forming an enlarged inclosure over the head end portion of the crib, said chamber being adapted to be opened to permit the convenient insertion and removal of the occupant, and to aiford a desirable protection when the structure is in use.

The invention consists in the improvemen-ts and combination hereinafter described and claimed. p

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a perspective view ota slumber Wagon embodying the invention, the shade hereinafter described being retracted.

Fi .2 isa longitudinal section of the same, the s e being extended.

Fig, 3 isan enlarged fragmentary section online 3 d of Fig. 1. y

Fig-441s a sectionon line 4-4 of F g. 3.

Fig, .5 is. a section on line 5-5 of Fig. 3.

The same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of the fi'gures.

A structure embodying the invention ineludes a body termed as a crib having a fixed hood atone end, and a hood extension hinged to the fixed hoodand forming therewith a chamber above the head end portion of the crib, the hood extension being displaceable to openthechambermnd being normall supported in, its. QPBIatlVE POSItIOII by suite le stop means. v a v In the embodiment oh the invention shown (b the. drawings a; box-like crib is provided, having a re atively low foot and member 12, a higher head end member 13, side members. 14;, of varying height conforming to the toot and head and members, and a. top member 15 attached to the. head member 13, and to the higher portions of the side members, 14. Thensaid side, head, and top Specification of Letters Patent.

fully or partly extended. When the Patented Aug. 17, 1920.

Application filed December 26, 1919. Serial No. 347,513.

members form a fixed hood above the head end portion of the crib.

The hood extension, as here shown, com prises a top member 16, connected by hinges 17 with the member 15, and side members 18, attached to the top member 16, and arranged to overlap portions of the side members. 14.

The top and side members of the hood extension define a front opening 19 in the extension, and the forward edges of the side members 18 are provided with shade-rod guides 20.

21 represents a shade-roller journaled in bearings at the upper end of said opening. With said roller is suitably connected a flexible shade 22, having at its outer end a stiff rod 23, the opposite ends of which are adapted to slide ,in the guides 20. When the shade is extended, so that its rod is in the position indicated by Fig. 2, the shade constitutes a closure for said opening.

It will now be seen that the fixed hood and the displaceable hood extension constitute a chamber over the head end portion of the crib, adapted to be opened by the displacement of the extension, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2, the top member 16 of the extension being adapted to lie on the top member 15 of the fixed hood when the hood extension is fully displaced. Provision is therefore made for the convenient placing and removal of the infant.

The shade-roller 21 may be any suitable spring roller, adapted to automatically wind up the curtain, and any suitable means, such as the means ordinarily employed in connection with shade-rollers and their guides may be employed for holding the shade-r0 23 at any point in its travel along the guides 20, so that the shade may be secured either shade is fully extended, as shown by Fi 2 the portions of the chamber of which the shade :Eorms a part are closed above the body of the crib.

The hood. extension may be supported in a partially displaced or raised position, to enlarge the chamber and permit the circulation of air under the forward portion of the hood extension, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2. The hood extensionmay be supported in the last-mentioned position by any suitable means, such as a dog 25 pivoted to the body of the crib, and adapted to engage a notch 26 in one of the side members 18. I

The guides 20 may be formed by parallel strips attached to and projecting from the inner shown by Figs. 3 and 5. The lower ends of said guides are preferably formed to bear on the upper edges of the side members 14 of the body, and thus :limitthe. downward swinging movement of the hood extension.

To prevent the spreading of the side members 18, I connect the same by a transverse tie-rod 27.

The structure may be provided with any suitable running gear, here shown as embodied in an axle 28, and wheels 29, the axle being connected as by springs 30, with the bottom portion of the body. Legs or standards 31 may be attached to one end portion of the body to cotiperate with the wheels in supporting the body in a horizontal po sition. A resilient arm 33 may be attached to the bottom of the body and to the axle 28, the rear end of said arm beinginclined downwardly at the rear of the axle, and adapted to bear on a floor to prevent the head end of the structure from tipping t'oo far downwardly. A suitable handle 34 may be provided at the foot end of the structure.

The body or crib may be upholstered, ii desired, and may be provided with a suitable spring bottom to support a mattress or bedding.

The forward ends of the side members 18 of the hood extension are preferably inclined, when said extension is in its operative position, so that the structure is adapted to support a sheet of netting disposed upon the hood extension, and on the exposed foot end portion of the crib,to exclude insects from the chamber. The structure may be provided with suitable ventilating openings 35, as shown by Fig. 'I, and said openings may beprotected by netting, if desired. A swinging cover 36 is shown for closing one of the openings 35.

I claim:

1. In combination, a slumber-wagon body comprising a box-like crib having a relatively low foot end member, a higher head end member, side members of varyin height, conforming to the foot and head end members, and a top member attached to the head end member and to the higher portions of the side members, said side, head, and top members forming a fixed hood, open at one side and located at the head end portion of the crib, and a displaceable hood-extension comprising a top member hinged to the top member of the fixed hood, side members attached to the top member and sides of the side members 18,.as,bestarranged to overlap portions of the side members, the top and side members of said extension being rigidly connected and definin a front ppeningin the extension, permitting-access to the open side of the fixed hood, and a movable closure for openin and closing saidfront opening, the sai hood and extension constituting a chamber over the head end portion of the crib, adapt ed to be opened by the displacement of the extension.

2. A slumber-wagon body embodying) the combination specified by claim 1, the ody being provided with means for engaging the extension, to support the latter in a partly displaced position, to enlarge the chamber.

3. In combination, a slumber-wagon body comprising a box-like crib, having a relatively low foot end member, a higher head end member, side members of varyin height, conforming to the foot and heail end members, and a top member attached to the head end member and to the higher portions of the side members, said side, head, and topmembers forming a fixed hood, open "at one side and located at the head end portion of the crib, and a displaceable hood-extension comprising a top member hinged to the top member of the fixed hood, side members attached to the top member and arranged to overlap portions of the side members, the top and side members of said extension being rigidly connected and defining a front opening in the extension, permitting access to the open side of the fixed hood, a shade roller journaled in hearings in the front opening of the extension, and a shade engaged with said roller, and adapted to be extended and retracted'to open and close said opening.

4. In combination, a slumber wagon body, comprising a box-like crib having a relatively low foot end member, a higherhead end member, side members of varying height, conforming to the foot and head end members, and a top member attached to the head end member and to the higher portions of the side members, said side, head, and top members forming a fixed hood above the head end portion of the crib,and a displaceable hood extension comprising a top member hinged to the top member of the body, side members attached to the top member and arranged to overlap portions of the side members of the body, said top and side members defining a front opening in the extension, the forward edges of the side members being provided with shaderod guides, a shade-roller journaled in ,bearings at the upper end of said openin ,and a shade enga ed with said roller an having a rod at its outer end adapted to slide in said guides, said shade, when extended, constituting a closure for said opening, the

said hood and extension constituting a bination specified by claim 4, the side memchamber over the head end portion of the bers of said hood extension being connected crib, adapted to be opened by the displaceby a transverse tie-rod. 10 ment of the extension, stop means being In testimony whereof I have afiixed my 5 provided for maintaining the hood extensignature.

sion in an operative position.

5. A slumber wagon embodying the com- GEORGE A. CONGDON. 

